tigdigitalstories - Resources

RESOURCE WEBSITES FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Creative Commons Flickr Search - Search for Creative Commons Images on Flickr
ImageCodr The search for images licensed under Creative Commons on Flickr.
Links to Image Sources from Digitales
Links to Royalty Free Resources
Microsoft Clip Art
NYPL Digital Gallery Free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library
Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia Students or teachers may download and print out the pictures provided in this section of this website for their personal use in project or classroom work.
Pic Findr Search the web for images.
Pics4Learning A copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.
WP Clipart Public domain clip art images optimized for use with Word Processors, specializing in use for education with fewer ads and easy search.
Primary Access - PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

Free Sounds Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound
Ibiblio.org A conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
Internet Archivesis building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
JamStudio Create music beats - free online music mixing & songwriting tool
Musopen An online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.
Reverbnation Click to download new music, completely free.
Soundzabounds

Audio Speak AutoSpeak Library of Sounds features the sounds of race cars, dragsters, motorcycles and other auto-related sounds.
Find Sounds Search engine for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.
Nature Sounds Free mp3s downloads of nature sounds.
Sound Snap Find and share free sound effects and loops.
Special Operations Military sounds.

Other Storytelling Resources (Collaborative Writing)

Give the students the task of writing in a particular format. For example: a dialog between two characters in a book they're reading, a dialog in a second language they're learning; a poetic form like haiku or diamanté, a standard five part essay or a news account using the elements of who, what, where, when and why with the most important information at the top.
Have students write a letter, a simulated diary entry of a famous person, a Wikipedia entry for their neighborhood or for some object you bring into the classroom.
Provide a partially complete document and let the learners fill in the missing parts.
Collaborative lyrical analysis
Grammar Journal Assignment description
Staff-to-staff Collaboration: Sharing lesson plans, PD Notes, Referral Forms
Student-to-staff: Sharing writing and poetry, lessons and quizzes
Student-to-student: Peer editing, and collaborative writing projects

FoldingStory - a group storytelling game
Create a Story with QR Codes
Ficly - Collaborative Storytelling. Start your own story or jump into someone else’s. Word limit of 1,024 characters.
WikiStory - Using a wiki for collaborative storytelling. A member can begin or edit a story, poem, plot or character description.